Most Northerners have never heard of Cleora Butler. But for many Tulsans her name conjures up fond memories of date nute cake, butternut squash bisque and burnt sugar ice cream. These recipes and ...

In the 1940s, with the help of her mother, Butler would bake some 150 small pies a day in her own kitchen to help supplement her family's income. By the mid-50s, she had opened her own successful ...

Some of Oklahoma's best cooks still use recipes from a cookbook published a month after its author died in 1985. Those recipes are still getting rave reviews. The book was compiled by Cleora ...

It took an omelette to bring Cleora Butler to Paulette Millichap. "A friend of mine had eaten an omelette that Cleora had made, and said it was the most fabulous ...

Cleora Butler. Council Oak Books, $26.95 (213pp) ISBN 978-0-933031-02-9. ... With over 300 relatively simple and inexpensive recipes well organized into decades, ...

I learned the backstory of this recipe. Cleora Butler, born in 1901 in Texas into a family of cooks, went north by wagon with her parents, former slaves, to Indian Territory, which they believed ...

Cleora Butler, author of "Cleora's Kitchens: The Memoir of a Cook & Eight Decades of Great American Food," in her home on Sept. 9, 1985. Before there was an official observance of Black History Month ...